Afreen Fatima

Afreen Fatima is an Indian student leader and National Secretary of Fraternity Movement. She is a prominent Muslim voice against the perceived anti-Muslim policies of the Indian government.

Education
She studied MA in linguistics at JNU, where she also served as the elected councillor in JNU students' union 2019-20 from the school of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies. As a candidate from Fraternity Movement - BAPSA alliance, she strengthened the call of "unity of the oppressed" and raised the issues of representation, discrimination and identity assertion. Formerly, she has been the elected president of Women's College Students' Union at the Aligarh Muslim University for the session 2018-19. She is known to have actively participated in the anti-CAA protests that started in 2019. She faced several days long media trial after a small part of her inciteful speech was tweeted by BJP's national spokesman Sambit Patra.

In June 2022 Afrin's house was demolished by the authorities in Prayag Raj after her father Jawed Muhammed, a leader of Welfare Party of India, incited violent protests including hurling of stones and incendiaries(footage of which are available online) against an controversial comment on Muhammad by Nupur Sharma.